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They are all crapware at this point.

Pick your poison. But don't worry, they slip it into your glass when you aren't looking, they don't force it down your neck(unless you decline to drink it for more than a couple of updates, then the settings to turn it off mysteriously disappear after an update!)

But don't worry, if you don't like it now, they assure you will once you get used to it.

Also not having turned it off before the program launches grants them permanent irrevocable rights to scrape all your contacts and park them in their cloud. But don't worry, they would never do anything "bad" or "evil" with them, though to be fair there is nothing to keep them from literally changing their mind about that. You agreed to to the agreement you see, which is like a contract, only where one party can change the rules whenever they want, to whatever they want. And even the current version of the contract is tip toes around the fact that even if the author of the agreement does not screw you completely, they may be sold, acquired, or merged with another company, and then all bets are off. Oh and all of that happens at program launch, but the settings are stored in your cloud account, which is only accessible after the program has launched, and you've given us a place to upload all of that data to that's confirmed to be associated with your real identity.

The web is shit, and the companies that run it have the integrity and trustworthiness of a used mattress salesperson. Change my mind.

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